Joe McCann

Current

Senior Technologist at frog design

Past

Lead User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX) Engineer & Creative Director at BearingPoint at BearingPoint
Co-Founder and User Experience Director at Mottainai
Equity Trader at SMB Capital, LLC

Education

Portland State University

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Industry

Design

Joe McCann’s Summary

UI/UX Engineer & Creative Director w/8+ years of experience w/heavy focus on the future of web-based applications involving AJAX, jQuery, Object-Oriented JavaScript, PHP, XML, XSLT, and MySQL. Well versed in XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1 for web design.

Heavy experience w/many web services specifically Google APIs including the Google Maps, Google AJAX Search, Google Visualization, and Google Language Translation APIs.

Accessibility, & ultimately universal design, is a major focus when developing a site or application. All projects are cross-browser compatiable (Internet Explorer 6-8, Firefeox 2+, Opera 9+, & Safari 3.2+ at a minimum) along w/whether or not the user has Javascript turned on or off. I implement the WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Application) specification into my rich internet applications as ARIA is quickly becoming the standard for making applications truly accessible.

I integrate performance & optimization techniques such as pre-loading/caching images & files & even concatenating multiple JavaScript files, compressing them, & outputting a single file during build/deployment, thus reducing page weight & the overall number of JS file requests. These cost-effective measures save money on bandwidth & provide the user w/an overall improved experience w/faster page loads.

Writing documentation is a specialty of mine, whether it be generating wireframes, userflows, or design documentation. At BearingPoint, I created a template to be used for all projects going forward called the User Experience Design Document, which is an elaborate "proposal" for the client complete w/design compositions & thorough descriptions of high-level concepts & even granular ones such as interactive elements.

Loads of direct correspondence w/high-profile clients. Moreover, I have had tight relationships w/many project managers & requirements analysts to help shape, define, & determine use cases & even core requirements.

Joe McCann’s Specialties:

The scope of my expertise lies on the developement AND design side. User Interface/User Experience development is where my passion lies in regards to the web. I feel that the interaction between the application layer and the presentation layer can be unified to create truly rich internet applications. I tend to focus on the programming aspect first for any web application and then apply the INTERACTION to how the User Interface is going to be presented.

Additional Information

Joe McCann’s Interests:

jQuery, PHP, AJAX, XSL, XML, jQuery Plugins, Google Android, Facebook, CSS, XHTML, Javascript, Actionscript, Photoshop, Aptana, (no longer using Dreamweaver), Flash, Google Maps, Google Charts, Google Translation, Google AJAX Search, Google Visualization, and MySQL